Leonard Nimoy To Visit Star Trek Sequel Set

Leonard Nimoy is headed back to the set of a Star Trek movie – but this time he is coming as a visitor. Today the original Spock actor tweeted about his plans for a trip to the set of JJ Abrams Star Trek sequel, currently in production. Details below.

Nimoy to return to the Star Trek set (for a visit)

Today Leonard Nimoy sent out the following tweet about visiting the set of the Star Trek movie.

This is actually not Nimoy’s first tweet about the film, last week he sent out the following after the official announcement of the production start.

It is certain the cast and crew will be delighted to see Mr. Nimoy again after working with him on the 2009 Star Trek movie where his Spock helped tie together the original "prime" universe with the new movie universe.

Leonard Nimoy in 2009 "Star Trek" – report says he and his fellow original series stars will not be seen in the sequel

Star Trek set popular spot for a visit

Even though JJ Abrams famously runs a tight ship to maintain secrecy, there still have been a good number of high profile set visits to his last Star Trek production. The 2009 Star Trek film saw set visits from Trek vets Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, Majel Barrett Roddenberry and Jonathan Frakes. Before production started director JJ Abrams also had lunch with William Shatner and George Takei. Other Hollywood luminaries also dropped by the set, including Harrison Ford and Steven Spielberg.

TrekMovie contacted Orci and asked if there is any feedback the team would like fan feedback on right now. Bob sent in the following query:

What would the general consensus be on the proper name for the main deflector dish?

That is an interesting question. The dish seen on all Starfleet ships through Star Trek history has been referred to by many names, including “navigational deflector”, “deflector dish”, “deflector array”, and “nav deflector”.

Get Bill and Leonard together for an easter egg scene. Post credit scene or dvd special. How about the hologram scene?? Sure that can work too.
Especially if it is a known villian. Some dialogue could be added about the villian in the birthday message. Would have been one of the best scenes of the 2009 movie

Tom – right on, brother. Come on Bob, Shatner is the originator of the greatest character ever conceived. No knock on Nimoy or Spock, but come on – we’re talking about JAMES T. KIRK here! How can we allow Star Trek to be reborn in such a sensationally fantastic way, and not include Shatner in it one more time before he croaks??? That’s just wrong, especially after Kirk’s absolutely LUDICROUS death in that movie that shall never again be mentioned by name. This is an injustice in the ST universe that must be righted, and you have the power to do so!

Oh almost forgot…in a ‘whimsical’ way they could have Spock, Chekov, Sulu, Uhura, and Kirk cameo as their aging selves, from that TOS episode where the commodore takes command and enter’s Romulan space…I forgot the name already…..

Ha! Your name just reminded me that I watched that episode tonight, “Yesterday’s Enterprise.” Captain Garrett and the Enterprise C come into the future and change everything.

Its funny….how many similarities are taken from that episode and used in the 2009 movie.

A) A hole in space type phenomenon. (Same as the movie)
B) A ship comes through and everything instantly changes. (Same as the movie)
C) At first only one person is is aware of it Guinan (Spock in the movie)

I laugh when people complained about the new movie in 2009 when its like “Uh, they did it in Yesterday’s Enterprise.”

36 a retelling of “The Dying Years” has been suggested numerous times on these boards, in fact i was the first one that i know of on here to suggest that as a way to get shatner back for the new moviea few years back , even though kirk died in generataions.

Oh JJ (as if you read this, but on the off chance…), when Mr. Nimoy comes, it would be nice to see if he’d agree to having some of his visit filmed as a part of the behind the scenes footage for the DVD extras. Even an interview with him and Zachary sitting down and asking each other questions about their experiences would be great. It could end with Nimoy giving Zachary any advice that comes to mind. Wouldn’t hurt if you were included in part of it too, like as the host of the behind the scenes. There really couldn’t be a better person. :-)

Hey, put Leonard in the movie. Some of us were upset with the destruction of Vulcan. So maybe they could write a scene where Spock meets up with Spock Prime on the new Vulcan colony. I always thought some of the best parts of the 2009 film were the Vulcan scenes.

33. Thank you. Whenever that gets suggested on here (or putting the scene in a theatrical re-release of Trek ’09, with the thinking that people will flock to theatres to see that scene), I think the same thing.

Prime Spock cannot be in the movie. The new movie is (also) for those people whi have never seen a Star Trek movie before. So they would be confused to see two Spocks. Therefore Nimoy cannot play Prime Spock again.

Well Nimoy is and always will be Spock to me. Quinto was good but to me Nimoy was Spock. Although it would be great to see the real Spock again, I do think the new movie needs to move on with its own cast. The new cast need their own, even though I will prefer the original version no matter what I can still enjoy watching these new ones, even if Pegg was not Scotty and maybe Saldana made Uhura a bit too bitchy in a few scenes.

44
Let’s also hope these guys don’t destroy any more iconic Trek planets this time, I also hated Vulcan being destroyed in the last movie but its a parallel universe that is separate from the Trek we grew up loving.

Also why is the Khan debate going on. I mean I thought with a british actor like Benedict Cumberbatch cat then it would dispel the Khan rumours once and for all.

#47 Yes, Majel Barrett Roddenberry was the computer voice for the Star Trek 09 movie, so I guess she must have been one of the “visitors” to the set. She died on 18 December 2008. They had already finished filming the movie by then.